Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision

Image, Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn’t, but I wanted the decision

Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn’t, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

—Peggy Orenstein

You might also like.

Image, Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they’re expected

Image, Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say

Image, Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are

Image, But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who

Image, It’s particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and

Image, Girls would say: “I have a boyfriend for that.” So in addition

Image, The anesthetizing against caring really threw me for a loop. I was

Image, There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who

Image, I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are

Image, I’m watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual

Image, The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make

Image, I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my

Image, Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent,

Image, And isn’t that, at it’s core, what the princess fantasy is about

Image, Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding

Image, For years we’ve used the bases analogy – with intercourse being the “

Image, Displaying yourself as sexy doesn’t do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or

Image, American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness

Image, The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is

Image, Sex-ed courses look at girl’s internal parts: for boys it’s about ejaculation,

Image, All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That’s grim.

Image, There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it

Image, Saying “yes” [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual

Image, I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up.

Image, I had a lot of girls ask me whether it was weird

Image, I asked a high school girl about unreciprocated oral sex and said, “

Image, Parents tend to name all of baby boys’ body parts, but with

Image, It’s not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a

Image, We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up

Image, Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical